Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, it's not non-ASCII characters or MSFT products that causes > problems. It's fucked up mail clients that send messages that > fallaciously claim to be using charset X when they're really in Y. > > Incidentally, these mail clients are MSFT products.
Please correct me if you really know better (I'm no email expert), but I'm fairly sure that e-mail is still supposed to be "7-bit clean" so it can go (without encoding/decoding) through 7-bit lines (maybe with parity on the 8th line), etc. Or has this been officially changed? What you say about MSFT's fallacious charset claims is certainly true of HTML/HTTP, except that more often they make no claim of charset at all, expecting the world to conform to their charset by default. As for HTML/MIME, I don't know if MIME supports the encoding of non-7-bit HTML characters into 7-bit code, or if it expects 7-bit-clean HTML. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
